Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The visual, social, virtual, and mobile transformations that are already happening are creating a new golden era of technology-enabled innovation, and the CIO needs to be leading the charge.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The recent ups and downs of the global financial markets have placed a lot of scrutiny on CEOs, corporate boards and executive teams to deliver stakeholder value that can withstand the fluctuations. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. is that in the U.S.

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The former creates efficiencies and propels markets; the latter drives creativity and innovation. Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. Or: S = (PT) C.

Succession 15

Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. ” Andrew Lowell, Lumiscape’s CFO, had thought it was a mistake to move exclusively to contracts. He clearly had a strong opinion on this, as any good CFO would.

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

But according to Dina Dublon, former CFO at JPMorgan Chase and currently HBS professor of management practice, the empowerment and deployment of embedded risk managers was part of formal risk management at the bank well before the financial crisis. But limiting the downside does not mean inhibiting risk-taking.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9